The Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts

Contents
Introduction
I Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Methodological Considerations
The Current Status and Problems of Islamic Origins
A New Arabic Apocryphon from Late Antiquity: The Qurʾān
II Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Historical, Literary, and Cross-Comparative Analyses
Body Parts Nomenclature in the Qur’anic Corpus
The Queen of Sheba in the Qur’ān and Late Antique Midrash
Standing under the Mountain: Jewish and Christian Threads to a Qur’anic Construction
Mapping the Sources of the Qur’anic Jesus
The Natural Theology of the Qur’ān and Its Late Antique Christian Background: A Preliminary Outline
III Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Social, Political, and Religious Contexts
Q 2:102, 43:31, and Ctesiphon-Seleucia
Prophecies Fulfilled: The Qur’anic Arabs in the Early 600s
The Sasanian Conquest of Ḥimyar Reconsidered: In Search of a Local Hero
Contextual Readings of Religious Statements in Early Islamic Inscriptions
The Gods of the Qur’ān: The Rise of Ḥijāzī Henotheism during Late Antiquity
“One Community to the Exclusion of Other People”: A Superordinate Identity in the Medinan Community
List of Contributors